Tiger Cross Stitch Gifts
Cross stitch is one of the oldest forms of embroidery and can be found all over the world. Many folk museums show examples of clothing decorated with cross stitch, especially from continental Europe and Asia. Two colour cross stitch in floral and geometric patterns, usually worked in black and red cotton threads on linen, is characteristic of folk embroidery in Eastern and Central Europe.Multicoloured, painting like patterns as we know them today are a recent development, deriving from shaded colours of Berlin wool work of the mid-nineteenth century. Traditionally, cross stitch where used to decorate items like dishcloths and household linens. Although there are many cross stitchers who still employ it in this fashion, it is now increasingly popular to simply embroider pieces of fabric and hang them on the wall for decoration.
Today cotton thread is the most common embroidery thread. It is a thread made of mercerized cotton, composed of six strands that are only loosely twisted together and easily separable. Other materials used are pearl cotton, Danish flower thread, silk and Rayon. Sometimes different wool threads, metallic threads or other speciality threads are used, sometimes for the whole work, sometimes for accents and embellishments.